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Isfahan Steel Complex Moves to Curb Dissent
Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA) February 27, 2010 Factory management moves to curb dissent at the Isfahan Steel Complex after a flyer invited company’s contract workers to go on a hunger strike to protest wage and benefit cuts. RAHANA – Last week, a flier calling on contract workers to go on [...]
February 28, 2010 | Posted in
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Source: Los Angeles Times Babylon & Beyond February 27, 2010 Iranian opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi accused the government of wasting public resources in a massive show of force against the opposition in his first public comments since planned protests failed to disrupt the Feb. 11 anniversary celebration of Iran’s 1979 revolution. But in the lengthy [...]
Source: The Associated Press (AP) February 27, 2010 TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s opposition leader said Saturday that a dictatorial ”cult” was ruling Iran in the name of Islam — his strongest attack to date on the country’s clerical leadership. Mir Hossein Mousavi also challenged the government to let his supporters take to the streets freely, [...]
Source: Reuters February 27, 2010 TEHRAN – Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi warned the legitimacy of clerical rule was waning due to its “repressive measures,” his website said on Saturday. Despite a crackdown that largely quelled the protests following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election in June, Mousavi has remained defiant, calling the government “a cult [...]
February 26th, 2010 The two day conference on Iranian Studies that was scheduled for Friday and Saturday, February 26th and 27th at Cambridge University has been canceled. Cambridge University’s Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies had planned this two day conference that was to receive financial assistance fro the Cultural division of the Iranian [...]
Opposition leader: Dictatorial “cult” rules Iran
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Source: The Associated Press (AP) February 27, 2010 TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s opposition leader said Saturday that a dictatorial “cult” was ruling Iran in the name of Islam — his strongest attack to date on the country’s clerical leadership. Mir Hossein Mousavi also challenged the government to let his supporters take [...]
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Source: BBC February 26, 2010 Hassan Nasrallah (far right) has made few public appearances since 2006 The head of the Lebanese Shia Islamist movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has made a rare public appearance in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Sheikh Nasrallah attended a dinner with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He is [...]
How Removing Sanctions Can Encourage Iranian Democracy By N. Kashani and M. Sadra Source: Foreign Affairs February 26, 2010 Summary: The U.S. government is relaxing its limits on the export of Internet technology to Iran. Unless Washington takes further action, though, Tehran’s filters might still stop Iranians from accessing critical digital tools. N. KASHANI and [...]
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By Ken Timmerman Source: Newsmax February 26, 2010 In what many believe is a coerced confession, captured Iranian opposition militant Abdolmalek Rigi says he was working with the CIA, a claim likely to further tatter already strained relations between Iran and the United States, observers say. Iran’s state-controlled Press TV released on Friday a heavily-edited [...]
